Many Casualties As More Robots Crash

Northern Advocate, 29 June 1944, Page 3

Many Casualties As More Robots Crash

(Rec. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, June 28. Flying-bombs which crashed on several parts of Southern England today caused many casualties. Seven people were killed by one bomb which fell among houses in a residential area. A flying-bomb crashed on a south coastal town within 20 yards of a crater caused in a previous raid, wrecking' four homes. Four bodies so far have been recovered from the ruins.

in another town three patients and a nurse were killed when a flyingbomb struck a power plant between two hospital wards. Nearly 100 children in a private school in Southern England escaped serious injury when a flying-bomb fell in. the garden. The children did not panic, although the blast shattered every window, ripped off doors and hurled furniture about. The Commander-in-Chief of AntiAircraft Command (General Sir Frederick Pile) stated: “It is no use shooting down 10 to 12 per cent, of flyingbombs. We must shoot down something like 90 per cent, of these doodle-bugs. Fighters and anti-aircratf guns have put up a good average in the past few days. We are on the right road and by no means at the end of our resources.”

Flying-bombs have been fired across the Channel this afternoon and lighters and ground defences have been in action. A number of kills were made. The Air Minister (Sir Archibald Sinclair) today told the House of Commons that a considerable number of sites from which flying-bombs are launched have been located and destroyed and the process is continuing. He added: “It would not be in the public interest to disclose the extent of our information about the methods, employed.” A later message says flying bombs over Southern England in daylight today caused damage and casualties. More hying bombs were sent ever in the evening. Watchers saw R.A.F. fighters streaking through the barrage pursuing flying bombs.

Four persons were trapped in a cellarshelter when a flying bomb jell in the street. Rescuers, guided by the cries of those entrapped, cleared an emergency exit and extracted them.